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Charles, tracing how U.S. law and governance have evolved across 250 years. The collection connects foundational debates in democracy, free speech, dissent, and citizenship with major institutions including the Supreme Court and the federal government. It also examines elections, criminal justice, punishment, climate and food policy, economic governance, new technologies such as AI, and the international legal order, emphasizing academic freedom and the long work of sustaining democratic life.","America Unfinished  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAmerica Unfinished  \n250 Years of Law and Governance  \nAn Essay Collection from Harvard Law Faculty edited by Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel E. Charles  \nThe MIT Press  \nCambridge, Massachusetts  \nLondon, England  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThe MIT Press  \nMassachusetts Institute of Technology  \n77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139  \n[mitpress.mit.edu](mitpress.mit.edu)  \n© 2026 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  \nThis book was set in ITC Stone Serif Std and Trajan Pro by New Best-set Typesetters Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.  \nISBN: 9780262060431 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nEU Authorised Representative: Easy Access System Europe, Mustamäe tee 50, 10621 Tallinn,  \nEstonia | Email: [gpsr.requests@easproject.com](gpsr.requests@easproject.com)  \nd_r0  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWe dedicate this book to the principles and promise of academic freedom, and to all the people who have risked and sacrificed so much over the centuries so that we may still exercise it.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments  \nDeclaration of Independence  \nGettysburg Address  \nIntroduction  \nAlexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel E. Charles  \nPart I: Democracy  \n1. The Unending Work of Democracy  \nNoah Feldman  \n2. Making Americans: A History  \nAnnette Gordon-Reed  \n3. Constituting Democracy: Investing in a Virtuous Circle  \nMartha Minow  \n4. Democracy Is a Negotiation  \nSheila Heen  \n5. From Independence to Interdependence: The Evolution of the American  \nProject  \nRachel A. Viscomi  \nPart II: Free Speech and Dissent  \n6. The Ban on Viewpoint Discrimination  \nCass R. Sunstein  \n7. Fear of Witches: Free Speech and Distrust of Government Speech  \nRestrictions  \nRebecca Tushnet  \n8. Effective Dissent  \nLaura Weinrib  \n9. Reinvigorating the Right to Petition  \nSharon Block  \n10. On American Exceptionalism and the Academic Freedom to Learn about History’s “Bad” Parts  \nTomiko Brown-Nagin  \nPart III: American Identity, Citizenship, and Race  \n11. One People: The Audacious Provocation of America  \nGuy-Uriel E. Charles  \n12. What Is America?: The Presumptions that Law Makes  \nKenneth W. Mack  \n13. Bicentennial Melancholia  \nRandall Kennedy  \n14. The Founders’ Choice Is Not Yet in the Past  \nJohn Coates  \n15. The Renaissance of Open White Supremacy  \nMichael Klarman  \nPart IV: The Supreme Court  \n16. 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